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Hi, how can I put an specific error message in my form where the error is. So for example, if the user forgott to enter an E-Mail adress, I want a error-message next to the field for E-Mails.
Thanx for help, Alex

I'm a newbie myself, but here's how I would go about it. When the form is submitted, you check each form input for a valid entry. If input is invalid, you could set an "invalid variable" corresponding with the name of the field, like this:

Code:

if (THE EMAIL ADDRESS IS WRONG) {
$invalidemail = 1;
}

Then, if any of the invalid variables exist after you've checked them all, send the visitor back to the form, only this time, make sure that the script looks for the existent of the invalid variable for each form field. This would go something like this: